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it's like the hunger games or harry potter which i haven't been able to figure out that except that, i guess readers are hooked, and it doesn't really matter. maybe also the line between what young adult is and what is allegedly adult is not as pronounced as it used to be. >> host: are you publishing any of those books? >> guest: we're not. so i can't speak with a lot of authority. i do know as far as twilight, there's a famous story she tell, about being on an airplane reading and knowing when she gets off that plane, she has to buy that book. i think she responded to twilight just the way any reader would. >> host: what about the use of social media, particularly when it comes to pr and marketing of a book? >> guest: well, um, i'm 57 years old, and i don't tweet. and so i rely on the young people in my office to do it. i think that, you know, it's one of the things i'm trying to educate myself and my staff about. i think what the internet has offered us is a way to narrow cast that we've never been able to do and a way to in a cost effective manner potentially reach the audience th
it's like the hunger games or harry potter which i haven't been able to figure out that except that, i guess readers are hooked, and it doesn't really matter. maybe also the line between what young adult is and what is allegedly adult is not as pronounced as it used to be. >> host: are you publishing any of those books? >> guest: we're not. so i can't speak with a lot of authority. i do know as far as twilight, there's a famous story she tell, about being on an airplane reading and...
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i loved -- not the list but harry potter, and things i have -- student and fahrenheit 451, and to kill a mocking -- -- mockingbird. >> do yaw have any books you haven't read yet you might be interested in reading? >> some of the classics i've always meant to read and haven't. i want to go back and take a look at them. invisible man. i don't think i ever tackled that one. >> and we are back live at the national book festival here in washington, dc. this is day one of two days of coverage. the book festival has now expanded to two days and book tv will be live both days. of you want to see our schedule go to booktv.org and we're pleased to be joined with rajiv chandrasekaran, an associate editor at the was post, and most recently the author of this book, "little america" about the war in afghanistan. but where did the term little america come from? >> it came from a remarkable project in the 1950s, led by a team of american engineers, to develop parts of southern afghanistan to dig irrigation candles, build dams, in the very same terrain that the current troop surge unfolded in. back the
i loved -- not the list but harry potter, and things i have -- student and fahrenheit 451, and to kill a mocking -- -- mockingbird. >> do yaw have any books you haven't read yet you might be interested in reading? >> some of the classics i've always meant to read and haven't. i want to go back and take a look at them. invisible man. i don't think i ever tackled that one. >> and we are back live at the national book festival here in washington, dc. this is day one of two days...
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there is 180,000 books like the harry potter series is part of that 180,000 books. you can borrow them for for using amazon-primetown of movie is also an tv series. cynthia mentioned down at the iman ago, i do not know if that is one of them.w down abbya moment ago. if all you wanted to do download free applications, music, magazines you could certainly do that. but when you get a premium content very inexpensive and application usually is about 99¢. >>host: i am sorry sharron, (...) >>guest: you were calling her again? >>host: c13 falling her with my brain. --phoning i worry about the lack of sleep i have had, she really does not get any sleep because we all called her. i will say when clock expires we are going to try to get you some extra time. basically because we know you want it. we want it all do we not? two things that i love every person who has a kindle they want this. every person who has kindle they say i cannot get this anywhere else.$40 on your credit card? it blows you away. believe meanwhile aaron berger does an amazing job, scratched the surface. -
there is 180,000 books like the harry potter series is part of that 180,000 books. you can borrow them for for using amazon-primetown of movie is also an tv series. cynthia mentioned down at the iman ago, i do not know if that is one of them.w down abbya moment ago. if all you wanted to do download free applications, music, magazines you could certainly do that. but when you get a premium content very inexpensive and application usually is about 99¢. >>host: i am sorry sharron, (...)...
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you know, harry potter, terrific series. when the kids come and terrific illustrations. books about sports, fine. if you have boys, let them read anything. , looks, great, graphic novels, almanacs, cut books, share, why not. as long as they are reading because to get better at it. i'll go to schools and say who play soccer? who love soccer? the outcome of the. you better know? would play a lot. same with reading. he read more, get better at it. it gets easier. you read better books. you have something that you love. so i though the will to get that in your hands that notion we read in our house. it's really cool that your kids see you reading. that's nice, but the most important thing that got to have books in their bedroom. i got to read the darn things. when jack was a, sue and i that's number -- the holidays are another good time, the three, four weeks they have. but they said you can read everyday. he said do i have to? assembly, unless you want to sleep in the garage. but we are going to find cool books for you. so we went out with us and percy jackson series, read:
you know, harry potter, terrific series. when the kids come and terrific illustrations. books about sports, fine. if you have boys, let them read anything. , looks, great, graphic novels, almanacs, cut books, share, why not. as long as they are reading because to get better at it. i'll go to schools and say who play soccer? who love soccer? the outcome of the. you better know? would play a lot. same with reading. he read more, get better at it. it gets easier. you read better books. you have...
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so they'll be taken out, and they'll go and see harry potter, whatever it is, but they'll miss the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes because to get them into the theater with the bodyguards requires that kind of thing. and it is absolutely despicable, it is absolutely despicable for hollywood not to show solidarity with these people. there's so much fake courage in the world, and in my own profession writers congratulate themselves on showing courage and all the rest of it. the people who, the solidarity that was shown with salman rushdie mostly by his north london dinner party, fellow dinner party novelists back in the late '80s would not be shown now. as the south park incident illustrated, everyone just goes very quiet about it these days. and i think, i think rushdie himself who had to cancel an appearance at a literary festival in india just a couple of days ago would be the first to say that even the tepid support he received 25, almost 25 years ago he would not get now. >> host: next call for mark steyn, about 30 minutes left with our guest, comes from lyle in marion, ohi
so they'll be taken out, and they'll go and see harry potter, whatever it is, but they'll miss the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes because to get them into the theater with the bodyguards requires that kind of thing. and it is absolutely despicable, it is absolutely despicable for hollywood not to show solidarity with these people. there's so much fake courage in the world, and in my own profession writers congratulate themselves on showing courage and all the rest of it. the people...
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rowling but rhode harry potter. but at the same time, i never talk about my book on my page. i may be do that once every six months maybe. so my whole point is if you get people -- and it's not like something i planned out. but i would just like to interact with people and if people get drawn to you and learn to have some kind of connection to you then they will be curious about your luck and want to know what it is you would write about and that is another way that i found my authors like william frederick cooper. great example. i met two of my authors on the same day. they were both at a festival selling their self published books. and i could tell by just his seriousness that i wanted to read his book. with william frederick cooper, i asked him about his book and he was so passionate about it the way he described what he wrote it and everything i knew immediately that his book was going to be awesome and it was. so it really is important not to just go and try to sell your books to people because that isn't going to work with its online or not a book festival or anything l
rowling but rhode harry potter. but at the same time, i never talk about my book on my page. i may be do that once every six months maybe. so my whole point is if you get people -- and it's not like something i planned out. but i would just like to interact with people and if people get drawn to you and learn to have some kind of connection to you then they will be curious about your luck and want to know what it is you would write about and that is another way that i found my authors like...
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and you can call that hercules or you can call with moses or you can call it superman or harry potter or lukes cal locker these are -- this is a story, and iconic titled, if you will, that we keep recycling. that has been a tremendous source of fascination to me. i do see that sense of tedium going back to your first point when i am in schools. one of the things that i have really enjoyed in the past few years is making many more school visits, particularly in the last year-and-a-half, visiting some of the great schools around the country the escape. it's wonderful. i go into rural alabama or north dakota were pennsylvania. inner-city brooklyn. i am able to talk to kids about what is on their minds. what i find and the saddest thing i see is the tremendous excitement, enthusiasm, curiously forestry from so many of these kids trying to keep alive, we get so far down in the testing and the standardized testing that we some times even kill that sense of curiosity. >> guest: first call comes from mel hall, pennsylvania. lawrence, you're on the air. please go ahead. lawrence are you with u
and you can call that hercules or you can call with moses or you can call it superman or harry potter or lukes cal locker these are -- this is a story, and iconic titled, if you will, that we keep recycling. that has been a tremendous source of fascination to me. i do see that sense of tedium going back to your first point when i am in schools. one of the things that i have really enjoyed in the past few years is making many more school visits, particularly in the last year-and-a-half, visiting...
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potter or luke sky walker. this is the story we keep recycle michigan and that's been a tremendous source of fascination to me. i do see that sense of tedium, going back to your first point, when i'm in schools, one of the things i enjoy is making many more school visits, particularly in the last year and a half i have been visit something of the great schools around the country via skype. it's wonderful. i go into rural alabama, or north dakota or pennsylvania, inner city brooklyn via the internet, and i'm able to talk to kids about what is on their minds. and what i find, the saddest thing i see, is this tremendous excitement, enthusiasm, curiosity, for history, from so many kids, and really dedicated teachers trying to keep that curiosity alive, but we get so bogged down in the testing and the standardized testing, that we sometimes do tamp down or even kill that sense of curiosity. >> host: first call for kenneth davis from mill hall, pennsylvania, lawrence, you're on the air. go ahead. lawrence, are you wi
potter or luke sky walker. this is the story we keep recycle michigan and that's been a tremendous source of fascination to me. i do see that sense of tedium, going back to your first point, when i'm in schools, one of the things i enjoy is making many more school visits, particularly in the last year and a half i have been visit something of the great schools around the country via skype. it's wonderful. i go into rural alabama, or north dakota or pennsylvania, inner city brooklyn via the...